dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

OK I ended up doing a kind of mini dig on MIA - there is some fascinating stuff there. Some things I copy/pasted …

May the bridges I burn light the way.

She reveals that Assange played a small part in the creation of ‘Matangi’. He “named the first song ‘Karmageddon’”

Album called /\/\/\Y/\

Maya split with Diplo and met Benjamin Bronfman, whose family ran the Seagram Co., and whose father, Edgar Bronfman Jr., had served as CEO of Warner Music Group.

Assange says "She’s the world’s loudest and finest rapping and dancing megaphone for the truth"

She takes up causes ("I think I'll talk about Liberia and stuff") without much thought and picks fights apparently at random: recent targets include Lady Gaga and the Twilight films as well as Facebook and Google, which, according to Maya, were "developed by the CIA".

Her application to renew an expired visa has been stuck in mysterious bureaucratic limbo since 2014. In an age when British popstars with any sort of US fanbase are routinely granted permission to work in America, her two-year hobbling seems unconventional. “Obviously what’s happening to me is very deliberate,” she says. “I don’t know who’s doing it, it’s like fucking playing Cluedo.”

"Fifty percent of the money that the Sri Lankan government makes, it all comes from Victoria's Secret."

“Everyone is fucking you up behind the screens,” she told the NME, “and I don’t like that. It makes it difficult for me to interact with my fans knowing that. Google and Facebook were developed by the CIA… Governments can shift their search engines so only what they want you to see comes up.”

"It was the 'axis of evil' and blah, blah, blah," she says of her rise to fame in the early 2000s.

“On paper I’ve supported WikiLeaks and stuff. And now Hillary Clinton is running for president. And until that’s solved I might have a problem, because anyone who ever associated with that website is going to get fucked up. Even if you delivered [WikiLeaks] their takeaway, you are going to be on a list. Do you know what I mean?”

"It's interesting that in America the problem you're allowed to talk about is Black Lives Matter,

Would Beyoncé or Kendrick Lamar say Muslim Lives Matter? Or Syrian Lives Matter?” The decision that she wasn’t going to perform was reported widely. Oddly, one of the US Embassy’s social media feeds retweeted the news. < PATRIOT RETWEET or warning??

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/mia-the-permanent-revolution-of-pops-most-fascinating-radical-w433771

http://www.thefader.com/2015/09/21/mia-cover-story-fader-24

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/11/mia-is-the-musician-paranoid-or-is-everyone-out-to-get-her

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/32223/1/your-ultimate-guide-to-m-i-a

M.I.A. founded N.E.E.T. Recordings back in 2008